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While waiting at the river Styx, in twisted time untaught, from branches of the gallows tree, in recollections wrought, your soul, a beggar’s blanket, hangs in crazy quilted knots, with dangling pearls and diamond studs in dripping crimson clots, midst gaping wounds and bulging eyes like fouling apricots, for wrapped like rope around your throat’s the Reaper’s grim garrote.
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Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 at 9:48 PM UTC
While Waiting at the River Styx
While waiting at the river Styx, in twisted time untaught, from branches of the gallows tree, in recollections wrought, your soul, a beggar’s blanket, hangs in crazy quilted knots, with dangling pearls and diamond studs in dripping crimson clots, midst gaping wounds and bulging eyes like fouling apricots, for wrapped like rope around your throat’s the Reaper’s grim garrote.
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." (Matthew 19:24)
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Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 at 9:48 PM UTC
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